Wolves face their longest journey of the season today when they travel to St James Park, Newcastle for this evening's Premier League match against the team striving to remain outside the relegation places, following their recent climb away from the danger zone.
Wolves coach Bruno Lage remains keen to chase the possibility of achieving European football for next season by getting as many wins as possible in the remaining games this season, and will no doubt be keen to follow up the convincing defeat of Villa last weekend with another win. He knows he will be without Raul Jimenez - who sits out his second match through suspension - and Ruben Neves who is injured, but Nelson Semedo is now back in training following his hamstring injury. It can be reasonably expected that Fabio Silva will feature in attack again, especially after the plaudits he received for his performance against Villa, and we must wonder whether the two goal hero of our home game against Newcastle - Hwang Hee Chan - will also start tonight.
All Wolves fans will no doubt be absolutely delighted to see how Jonny has fared since returning from his dreadful spell on the injury list, and indeed even though he is playing on the right side of defence rather than the more customary left side in Wolves colours. Romain Saiss missed out on the last game after a busy International break, but he may return to the starting Xl this evening, although Max Kilman and Willy Boly performed well in defence alongside Conor Coady.
After a run of good results which helped them escape from the relegation battle, Eddie Howe's United have lost their last three games and need an upturn in results to maintain their hope for a mid table finish, although all those games were played away. He will definitely be hoping that the St James Park atmosphere will help them in tonight's game, although he already has a casualty as striker Joe Willock is unfit to play.
Tonight's officials will be our referee Peter Bankes with new boy Jarred Gillett on VAR duty. The game will be featured live on Sky TV's 'Friday Night Football' and will kick off at 8:00pm
This board will endeavour to carry regular updates on the progress of the game. Members are encouraged to join in the conversation with their own observations and comments for the benefit of those unable to otherwise follow the match.
Could be a tough night ahead with Newcastle looking to steady their ship after a few disappointing results. I would like to see RAN replace Marcal and be given license to take on their defenders otherwise would be happy to see the same team that saw Aston Villa limp to a defeat. Three points keeps us in the mix for a European adventure, cmon lads.
Two changes for Wolves tonight with Hwang replacing Podence and Cundle starting in place of Dendoncker, which will be a surprise to many of us!! Line-up:
Even stevens so far although Jose Sa has already had to cut out a cross to Wood. Ryan Fraser has pulled up with possible muscle injury- carrying on for now
Soft free kick to Utd in a dangerous position but the wall stands up well. Half time whistle blows. A very poor first 45 mins from us when we were very lucky VAR went our way to call offside when Wood scored. We have reverted to passing sideways and backwards again, particularly Hwang who has been absolutely rubbish and I personally cannot see why we value him at £11 million!!!
Newcastle 0 Wolves 0
A poor match so far and Newcastle seem to be the most motivated.
Bruno needs to shake them up during the break. Hwang was almost invisible during that first half although service was dire. Neither goalkeeper tested which sort of sums it up.
I would have Chiquinho and RAN on soon to run at the opposition.
Fabio is chasing everything & really trying to attack when he has the ball. Ref ignores a foul on Hwang & Utd break until San Maximan puts it over the bar. Then he breaks and puts it across but Wood is too slow getting there
Jose Sa concedes another penalty when Wood goes over his leg, after putting the ball out. Jose really didn’t need to go near him. Wood puts it away
Utd 1 Wolves 0
All over after a very poor performance by a Wolves. We made a very average United tea look good. Jose Sa gave away another penalty when he didn’t need to go near Woid who had already put the ball into touch, but knew how to ensure contact. Hwang and Trincao were exceptionally poor tonight & Fabio couldn’t do it all on his own despite trying to.
All the talk is about playing European football next season, but on this showing we wouldn’t last five minutes. We desperately missed Neves and Raul tonight, and I fail to understand why we should even consider signing Hwang.
Newcastle Utd 1 Wolves 0
A really disjointed performance from Wolves, showing how much we missed some of our senior players. A very poor first half followed by improvement in the second but put to the sword by a penalty craftily won by Chris Woods.
Hwang was poor and Neto did more in the few minutes he got, Fabio is no replacement for Raul yet but didn’t disgrace himself. Young Luke Cundle worked hard and should be reasonably happy with his contribution but helped massively by Moutinho who was doing all the positive work for us.
We were by far the better team in the second half but didn’t have the guile to open Newcastle up.
Onwards and upwards.
How disappointing was that? a really poor performance making a poor toon team look half decent. We were so poor first half surely bruno should of made changes at ht. He waited to long for me how did you just know he would wait till we were a goal down, just to late. I'm with you chesh on hwang he doesn't convince me one bit and trincao has had about 1 decent game in a wolves shirt he was awful tonight but he wasn't the only one. Great chance missed tonight and i think the chance of European football has gone up in smoke! Just shows the fringe players are not good enough.
Couldn't get a stream for the first half but it seems as though I had a lucky escape.
2nd half we never looked like scoring apart from a shot by Fabio that the 'keeper put round the post.
I fear any chance we had of European football has gone with this defeat. Too early to give up on it I know, but with three of our remaining matches against Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea, we needed something out of this.
I agree with Chesh regarding Hwang. After making a decent start for us earlier in the season, he now appears to offer little. If Neto is considered fit enough to play 90 mins, he has to start surely.
Peed off with the result and sad to see the comments which having read the BBC and texts from friends collectively add up to a very poor performance. A match to have missed, which of course I did!
Just no consistency in this team which has such capability and delivers as much as it fails. Bottom line is lack of depth in players.
Any side starting with those front 3 tonight is going to be on the back foot; based on the laws of average, but it does go deeper, I know.
A week off next week …. Man City are in the semi’s, wished we had a quicker opportunity to reverse this evening.
A totally shocking performance. No positives whatsoever. Bruno talks a great game but I have lost faith in him. His post match interview was nonsense. He said that Wolves controlled the game in the first half! What on earth is he talking about? We had 1 attempt at goal that was off target and we had 1 corner kick!
One of the worst games of football I have ever seen. The only winners at wolves at the moment are the transfer agents.
A terrible match on Friday, no excuses, but with Man Utd losing to Everton, West Ham losing to Brentford and even Arsenal losing to Brighton, we may have got away with it, although I can't see us catching Arsenal. UTW.
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